BATTLE OF AFRICA: Full Measure of Blood

Backed into their corner of North
Africa, Axis troops hacked and jabbed at Allied armies which were
slowly, slowly closing in. The action was "minor," but it flared along
the whole 500-mile front. Small opposing forces fought for position,
struggled bitterly for mountain passes, railroad stations, strategic
heights.

Typical was the fighting in central Tunisia, near Sened, where
battle-green U.S. troops got a fiery baptism. Their objective was the
Sened railroad station, 50 miles from the coast. As their half-tracks
and anti-tank guns advanced through a sandy valley, German 75s and...